Drudgery Quotes

• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters"

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• Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Determination, Struggle, Accomplishment

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• Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

  Richard Wagner

  Worry, Achievement, Source

  Richard Wagner (1950). “Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection ...”

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• Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Perseverance, Children

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.27, e-artnow

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• Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Tuscany, Genius

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Drawing, Joy

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• Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mind, Earth, Treasure

  Margaret Fuller (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.370, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

  Colleen Barrett

  Life, Fun, Attitude

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• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

  Philosophy, Real, Careers

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• Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  Simon Raven

  Book, Boring, Notes

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• Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

  Peter Benchley

  Writing, Order, Sweat

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• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Feelings, Wish

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• With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  School, Men, Genius

  "Keeping Pace" by Keeping Pace, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2014.

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• In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

  Max Ehrmann

  Confusion, Soul, Broken Dreams

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.6, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Crafts, Action

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.10, Penguin

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• The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  School, Thinking, People

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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• Women in drudgery knew
  They must be one of four:
  Whores, artists, saints, and wives.
  There are composite lives
  that women always live

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Artist, Wife, Saint

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.58, Northwestern University Press

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• It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Break Through, Today, Facts

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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• Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

  Max Ehrmann

  Peace With God, Broken Dreams

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.6, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Notion, Earning A Living

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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• As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

  Max Ehrmann

  Surrender, Broken Dreams, Term

  "Desiderata" (1927).

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• Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Peace, Silence, Haste

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death.

  Dave Eggers

  Baby, Travel

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• The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.

  Zoltan Istvan

  Dream, Comfort, Spirit

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